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Class: Instant §

From Instant

(Instant) method from-posix §

method from-posix($posix, Bool $prefer-leap-second = False)

Converts the POSIX timestamp $posix to an Instant. If $prefer-leap-second is True, the return value will be the first of the two possible seconds in the case of a leap second.

say DateTime.new(Instant.from-posix(915148800, True));  # OUTPUT: «1998-12-31T23:59:60Z␤» 
say DateTime.new(Instant.from-posix(915148800));        # OUTPUT: «1999-01-01T00:00:00Z␤»